Hello and welcome back to Doncaster. Last season was a gut punch we didn’t recover from. We lost Totti after 4 games. Went on an incredible run of form until March where we had our defence and top scorer ripped away due to the big club release clause. We never recovered and slipped from 2nd to the playoffs and lost to Hull in the Semi Final. Over the summer we have rebuilt the defence and signed new boys up front.
Welcome back to my weekly round up of the life and times of some of the world’s most famous CM9798 bloggers. Where they transfer their writing skills to the football pitch.
We will start this week with the arrival of Newcastle to the arena. Dave is not one for sentiment. He gives them the business with the winning goal. I hope he celebrated!
Catch up with part 1 here.
After a couple of friendlies I’m going with this formation and starting line up. Competition for places.
This had alway been my go-to formation. Again before joining Twitter, was unaware of the 2-3-1-2-2. That’s a good formation and effective, but I find it’s difficult to get the whole team to play well. Wing-backs in particular. This formation will get everyone 7.20+ if they are the right fit and good enough. It’s all opinions and preferences.
Continue readingHello there! Throughout January I will be looking back over 10 years of running this very blog. Last week we started with my ten favourite blog saves and this week we’ve moved on to my top 10 cult heroes.
A cult hero is somewhat of an unlikely hero, so you won’t see Ronaldo or Zidane on this list but more people who have given us some laughs and unlikely successes.
Let’s get down to business…
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Bom Dia! and welcome once again to more Friday frolics with Nick and his squad of Portuguese Wolves, who after making a great start to their second season in the Premiership, have been going through a blip lately. Can they sort it out this week?…
Despite sliding from 4th to 9th last week, we’re only 6 points off 2nd spot, so it’s not actually as bad as it sounds. Let’s see how many places we can climb with just 16 games remaining…
We start by getting knocked out of the FA Cup at the hands of Sheffield United, as José Veiga has a debut to forget in our goal. There’s no shame in conceding a Tom Youngs strike, but I’ve no idea who the other bloke is…
Old Trafford has been a surprisingly happy hunting ground for us so far, but despite being 10th, United are in no mood to be messed around, and lead after 5 minutes, but we battle back and leave with a well-earned point.
Oddly, we have a 3-week break with no game before facing league leaders and midlands rivals, Aston Villa. We look to be heading for another good point, only to come unstuck at the end and leave with Niel points…
The recent slump hasn’t gone unnoticed by the board, and after being in the Premiership for just under two seasons now, apparently 8th place is no longer good enough for them…
But just as all is starting to look lost, things finally take a turn for the better in front of a record 36,997 spectators against 4th-placed Leicester, thanks to Pauleta, who gives us a 1-0 lead to sit on for the remaining 87 minutes…
We follow the narrow win over the foxes with another against rock-bottom Spurs, where the usually invincible Ian Walker has a rare off-day and is surprisingly easy to score against, as Capucho and Pauleta do the damage.
European football returns after a 3-month break, and we make it three wins in as many games with a solid away performance on Tyneside to put one foot (or paw, seeing that we’re Wolves) in the UEFA Cup semi finals…
A visit from Wednesday is all about the fours… Pauleta scores for the fourth game running to set us on the way to a fourth win in a row, but despite a red card, the visitors equalise four minutes from the final whistle. Four f*ck sake!
The points are shared again in a rescheduled midweek catch up game at Elland Road, which extends our recent unbeaten run to 5 games, but I’d rather the two extra points. This Cassin bloke is really starting to p*ss me off…
A dismal stalemate at Stamford Bridge with 17th-placed Chelsea follows, thanks mainly to Mickael Landreau again, but it’s not all doom and gloom as the point lifts us to 6th place…
My keeper’s fine form is finally rewarded with a call up to the national side, well done Miggy.
And carrying on the four theme, Newcastle take the lead in the fourth minute, but we grab a late equaliser to make it four draws in a row and progress to the last four of the UEFA Cup…
Our reward for despatching The Toon is a quarter of a million and a semi with Real Madrid. Oh joy…
Liverpool end our unbeaten run in a match that’s all done and dusted inside 7 minutes. It probably should have been a heavier defeat, but our keeper is man of the match and most of the defenders have 8/10, which says it all…
The arrival of Veiga means that I now have four keepers, so I say a permanent Ciao to Cao.
And Hugo Porfirio, who has quite frankly been useless, has the choice between Southend, Carlisle and Chesterfield, and opts for the latter…
There are no deadline day incomings, but I decide to let Manarte leave as we’ve got a lot of strikers, with Alexandre doing well out on loan and staking his claim for next season…
We’ve enjoyed playing Newcastle lately, and in our third meeting with them in a month, Pinto marks his return from injury with a goal, and his midfield partner in crime joins him on the score sheet to take us up to 5th in the table…
I was frustrated after all those draws, so this is a nice surprise…
To the UEFA Cup semis then, and our trip to the Bernabéu goes about as badly as it can, the only silver lining being two away goals, which may or may not come in handy depending on how many we let them score in the second leg.
We’ve never managed to shake off our ability to throw in pathetic performances against the bottom teams. Scoring two against 15th-placed Barnsley would have been great if we didn’t give them a 3-0 head start. The Little Tykes…
We wrap this week up at Craven Cottage, where we take the lead somewhat against the run of play, and the hosts are deservedly level in no time. Try as we may, we just can’t find a winner, and it’s two more points dropped…
So here’s the table after all of that, and after a winning a few and climbing up to 5th, some poor results have seen us drop back down to 9th, where we started this week. We’re only two points outside the European places with four games left though, so all is not lost yet…
A quick look at the squad before we go, and after a few sales, we’re down to my preferred size of 26, with most of the youngsters out on loan getting valuable experience…
So that’s it for another week. Join me again next week for the final 5 league games against Bolton, Birmingham, Arsenal, Coventry and Sheffield United, as well as that second leg with Real Madrid. It’s also a World Cup summer, so we’ll be following Portugal’s progress in Japan to pass some time in the close season. See you then. Adeus!
Hello and Happy New Year to you all. I hope you’ve had a decent break and are ready to follow more trials and tribulations with my African Leeds team. We’re about to embark on Season 5, so far we’ve won the FA Cup and reached a few semi-finals, notably the Champions League last season, but the common theme over the past 12 parts has been inconsistent form. We can score shed loads, but we can also concede them.
I gave myself a target of 5 seasons to win the league and makes some inroads into Europe, so will Season 5 fulfil those ambitions?
This is the squad that will try and achieve that aim, I’m not holding out much hope though, but maybe the Quicker and co can bring some glory
Hello All. It’s been a while since I did a blog but I’ve been given a challenge and a half by Santa. Let me explain.
The Blog Squad got together over Christmas to do a secret Santa. We were to buy a football shirt for each other and whatever shirt we received would be the team of our next blog. The Legend Deano pulled my name and he got me a stunning Doncaster Rovers shirt. The challenge is to win the Premier League with them. Doncaster are woeful on 97/98. In real life they had one of the worst seasons in Football League history, ending up in the Conference. We have a trump card though. With the shirt I received I also got an icon card, Francesco Totti. So for this blog Totti will start at Doncaster. Also as a nod to Deano I will sign 1 Welshman every season. Here’s a look at the current squad.
Hello and welcome back. As promised, I am back. The year is 2022, and only a few months have passed since my last blog post……. well, it seems it’s been almost 3 full years since we left the Blog squad. They had just finished a pretty successful first EPL season. They finished 3rd overall and qualified for our first every European adventure.
Let’s get right back into it, shall we? Having finished strongly, we start the season looking to improve both the squad and the finishing position. We make hard work of Forest but overcome them in the end, thanks to TBS OG Zak.
Happy New Year & welcome to a new blog series. Apologies if you are expecting more of the same. I did start a new blog with another stupid backstory but I lost interest in it.
The backstories came long before I started using Twitter. It was always me, my brother Darren and mate, Rennie, who would set each other challenges. We would always come up with fictional reasons why we were doing a challenge. Things like saving Bury from terrible events which all started with their club folding, after a visit from Doc from Back to the Future who said we had to win the Champions League or many people would die! My last blog on Partick Thistle, was based upon an in-challenge a few years ago about melting English trophies into a sword to take back to Scotland.
So after joining Twitter and asking Dave if I could do a blog on his site, it was always going to be in that style. BUT….. I think I’ve milked the joke as far I can now. Haven’t really got any new good ideas and the truth is I’m a bit bored of it.
For my next couple of blogs I’m going to focus on the game itself.
The backstory of this blog is pretty simple. We had a Secret Santa between the bloggers with the idea of getting someone a mystery shirt and challenging them to write a blog based on that team.
Continue readingHello to you! As I may have mentioned, January 2025 signals the 10 year anniversary of this very blog. We love a milestone on here, and why the heck not. Back in 2015 I thought it might be a laugh to play and blog this wonderful game from start to finish, which is the end of the 29th season. I didn’t really expect it to get the traction it did and I’ll always be grateful for the doors this whole experience has opened for me, and of course to you for engaging with this tomfoolery.
Over the next few weeks I’m going to produce some top 10 lists of things about the game, such as bargain signings, cult heroes, fraud players and this week – blog saves!
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